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COXIFER.E. — THE PINTJS, OR PINE TREE. 
while those planted in the low ground about 
the house are in a sickly state." The most 
unfavourable point relative to this tree is, 
that even where it thrives best it grows only 
at the rate of nine feet in twelve years. 
Nevertheless, as an alpine tree, it is well worth 
the attention of planters. There are speci- 
mens in the garden of the Horticultural Society. 
P. 31. nana, the Knee Pine of Upper 
Styria, where it affects the highest mountains 
in the form of a trailing bush. It is consi- 
dered to be extremely hardy. A specimen in 
the Dublin Botanic Garden, twenty years 
planted, is about two feet high only. 
Pinus resinosa, Aiton (red Pine). — A red 
barked tree, erect and tall. Leaves in pairs 
four to five inches long, almost straight, of a 
light glaucous green, tipped with yellow. 
Buds reddish brown, resinous, one inch and a 
half long, concave on the sides, with long fine 
points. Cones, two inches lonjr, obtuse ovate- 
oblong, of a brownish red colour, and almost 
without footstalks. Scales of cones dilated in 
the centre, and spineless. 
A noble tree bearing a general resemblance 
to P. Laricio, but altogether more open and 
airy in its growth, having the branches less 
intermixed, the foliage lighter, and the whole 
tree less robust. Viewed in its native coun- 
try, the United States, the plant will bear the 
highest recommendation both as an ornamen- 
tal object and as a timber tree. Its average 
altitude is seventy-five feet, with a bole six feet 
in circumference, retaining this girth to the 
height of about fifty feet. The bark is of a 
reddish colour, similar to that of P. sylvestris 
ltorizontalis ; a feature indeed which forms at 
once a distinguishing characteristic of the 
species. The leaves are tufted like brushes, 
another marked character of the plant, and 
rendering it very desirable on the lawn and 
pleasure ground. The wood is close, of com- 
pact grain, full of resinous matter, and conse- 
quently very enduring. It makes good pumps, 
and it is often laid down on decks of ships 
forty to fifty feet long, without exhibiting a 
single knot. It is often used as masts for 
large ships, and considerable quantities of it 
are imported into England to be used for 
house-building purposes. Viewed in this 
country, it almost ceases to interest any one 
as a prospective addition to our timber trees ; 
and it is now sharing the fate of the great 
majority of its kindred from America — being 
prized only as an ornamental object, but oc- 
cupying the first rank in that respect. At 
Rozelle in Ayrshire, it has not succeeded, 
though planted under the most favourable cir- 
cumstances. After seven years' trial, it was 
found not much larger than when removed 
from the nursery. Mr. Locke says, " we 
have been a good deal disappointed with this 
pine, after the high recommendations it haa 
from America." At Bollindalloch, Moray- 
shire, it gives better promise. At Dropmore, 
Berkshire, specimens of this tree are thirty feet 
high. There are good trees also at White 
Knights, Carclew in Cornwall, and at Chip- 
stead in Kent. It ought to have a place 
in every Pinetum. Plants are 2s. 6d. 
Pinus halepensis, Aiton (Aleppo Pine). 
— Leaves two and three in a sheath, but ge- 
nerally only two, from two inches to three 
inches long, slender, grass-like, remaining on 
for two years only, which accounts for the 
meagre appearance of the tree. Flowers 
appear in the beginning of June. The male 
catkins reddish, grouped on short pedicles ; the 
females, green, tinged with red, proceeding 
from the side of the branches. Cones on 
thick footstalks, pyramidal, regular in form, 
with depressed truncated scales, fawn coloured, 
and when perfectly ripe, grey. A widely 
distributed species, a native of Syria, Barbary, 
Spain, and France. 
A low grower, and only entitled to be 
considered as an ornamental plant in the cli- 
J mate of Britain. In this respect, however, it 
is really very desirable, and ought to be in the 
collection of every one who has an Arboretum. 
The winters in Scotland are too severe for it ; 
and those plants which were tried in the Pine- 
tum, at Rozelle, were killed a few years since. 
The fact that it thrives luxuriantly on slopes 
of hills near to the sea-side, at Runton, in 
Norfolk, may be of use to planters who have 
lands similarly situated. It has been planted 
, in considerable numbers in that district ; and 
j the secret of its great success there, is, in all 
i probability, to be found in the deep-trenched 
j soil in which it grows, coupled with its proxi- 
| mity to the sea which wards off the intensity 
of frost. There is no pine which displays such 
; an improvement when let loose from the re- 
straint of pot culture, so that its appearance 
' in nursery grounds would actually deter those 
j from trying it who had never seen it luxuriat- 
j ing in deep free soil where its roots are not 
confined. This plant might be rendered more 
fit to withstand the winters of the north if it 
were grafted on the Scotch pine. The seeds 
of this plant should be sown under glass, kept 
in a shady place out of doors till October, and 
protected during the winter in a greenhouse. 
When two years old, they might be planted 
into lines in the nursery, or placed singly in 
pots, and sunk in the open ground, sheltering 
them with dead branches, &c, during the 
winter months. Plants two feet high are 
Is. 6d. each. 
Varieties. — P. h. minor. A variation from 
the species only to the extent of the cones 
being smaller. A specimen in the Horticul- 
tural Society's Garden is from 25 to 30 feet high. 
